German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed an audience gathered in Berlin for an event marking 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the former Nazi concentration camp.<br /><br /> Merkel drew parallels between recent events in Europe.<br /><br /> “It’s a shame when people in Germany are mobbed, threatened or attacked when they say they are Jewish or when they speak out for the State of Israel,” said Merkel.<br /><br /> “Auschwitz concerns us all, today and tomorrow and not only on anniversaries,” she added.<br /><br /> Auschwitz survivors Marian Turski from Warsaw and Eva Fahidi attended the opening event along with young people from Poland, Israel and Germany<br /><br /> Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945
